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Denying the climate is changing is really criminal because you are preventing action in a crisis. The evidence of our global crisis is so overwhelming. Stopping action to mitigate the change crisis is as a bad as stopping the fire department from going to a burning house. We have to get belligerent and combative in some way against these fools.
I was watching some National Geographic programming on climate change and it is much worse than we know. The media refuses to hold these people accountable. It is now very late in the game and we are nearing tipping points that we cannot see. It is like crossing an ice field where we do not know where the crevasses are. We could be swallowed up by our inaction.
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Auggie
(31,133 posts)and they want disaster so they can push their pro-corporate solutions on a panicked electorate.
It's a big club, and you and I aren't in it — George Carlin
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)If you watch documentaries the MSM won't cover and research what is going it is like the Earth is beginning to have a heart attack metaphorically. And these bastards are stopping treatment.
TheHak
(71 posts)I own a property on the water and for obvious reasons have looked seriously at the issue and the potential consequence on home values.
I started with all the skeptics websites, articles, claims. This is a must read for anyone interested in the subject as nothing in their claims has any substance to it at all. It's all designed to convince an uneducated crowd who does nt want to spend more than 3 mins on the subject. Typical examples will be to take last 10 years of data, choose the highest historic point of data 10 years ago as a starting point and then on of the most recent cold point and show a 'downward' trend.
Climate change is happening. Its happening faster than what people anticipate and the consequences are in most likelihood far worst than most people imagine. Think of the equivalent of a global nuclear war. Its just barely not as bad. The consequences are existing already too...How active would boko haram be without the sahel moving Southwest so quickly? How different would the Syrian civil war be without 95% of the Syrian farmland destroyed in the 5 years leading to the revolution.
The truth is I dint buy the authoritarian shift or that trump is a danger to democracy, etc..but I have no doubt that the climate choices of the Trump administration are going to be an absolute disaster. Probably ones that will put us to the point of no return, where positive feedback loops will just be too strong.
And the saddest thing is that most of the GOP knows this. Newt, Romney, etc..all used to speak vocally against climate change...but obviously short term conflicts of interests are biasing their views now.
And so yes I think one day there could be an extraordinary payback, one day there might be a 'nuremberg' of climate deniers (I'm not including genuine scientific skeptics)......and this will most probably happen in our lifetime and clearly in the lifetime of our children.
I can only pray I am wrong...
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)It's possible that the US could be marginalized by the other world economies until we take productive and science based steps to align with them.
